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Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh, 1910-2005 (Item)
  • Bio: Chalmers McGeagh Roberts (b. November 18, 1910, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-d. April 8, 2005, Bethesda, Maryland), journalist, was Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post from 1953 to 1971.
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Washington Post, 1949-1971
Ashmore, Harry (Item)
  • Bio: Harry Ashmore (1916-1998) was executive editor, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas; and Executive Vice President and later President, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1969-1974. He was a columnist and author and was active
  • LBJ Connection: Executive editor, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas; Executive Vice President and later President, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1969-1974
Marder, Murrey (Item)
  • Bio: Veteran, WWII, U.S. Marine Corps; Journalist; Chief Diplomatic Reporter, Washington Post, 1946-1985.
  • LBJ Connection: Chief Diplomatic Reporter, Washington Post, 1946-1985
Kilpatrick, Carroll (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Washington Post
Terry, Wallace (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Reporter for Time, Washington Post, USA Today
Tucker, Ray (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Columnist for the Houston Post
Oberdorfer, Don, 1931- (Item)
  • Bio: Donald Oberdorfer was a journalist with the Charlotte Observer, Saturday Evening Post,Knight Newspaper Bureau, and the Washington Post. His book credits include ““Tet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War”, 1971;and“The Turn: From the Cold War
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist; Washington correspondent, Knight Newspapers, 1958-1961; Associate Editor and Contributing Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1961-1965; Staff writer, Washington Post, 1968; Author, Tet!
Braestrup, Peter (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, New York Times, 1960-1968; Saigon Bureau Chief, The Washington Post, 1968-1973
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Publisher, Washington Post, 1979-2001
Hoyt, Palmer (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Publisher and editor, The Denver Post; United States Information Agency Advisory Commission, 1965
Just, Ward (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Newsweek, 1959-1965; Washington Post, 1965-1970, assigned to cover the Vietnam War
Karnow, Stanley, 1925- (Item)
  • Correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1965, and Far East Correspondent and Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post from 1962 to 1972. Karnow also served as Associate Editor of the New Republic in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1975.
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist with Time, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, The London Observer, The Washington Post, 1959-1975; Recipient, Pulizter Prize for history; Author, Vietnam: A History
May, Timothy (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Director, National Maritime Commission, 1963-1966; General Counsel, Post Office Department, 1966-1969
Wiggins, J. Russell (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Executive Vice President and Editor, Washington Post; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., 1968-1969
Siegel, Gerald W. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Advisor to LBJ during the Senate period; Washington Post legal counsel and VP
Gordon, Helene Lindow (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Mrs. Johnson's staff, 1968-1969; Secretary to Mrs. Johnson during the post-presidency; Family friend
Ignatius, Paul R. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics, 1961-1963; Under Secretary, 1964; Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1964-1967; Secretary of the Navy, 1967-1969; President, The Washington Post, 1969-1971
Belen, Frederick C. (Frederick Christopher), 1913- (Item)
  • Bio: Frederick Christopher Belen (b. 1913) was secretary to Congressman Andrew Transue for the 75th congress, secretary to Congressman George D. O'Brien for the 77th-79th congresses, and counsel and chief counsel to the Post Office and Civil Service
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Postmaster General, U.S. Post Office Department, 1964-1969
Heller, Walter W. (Walter Wolfgang), 1915-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: Walter Wolfgang Heller (1915-1987) was considered one of the leading economists of the post-war era. Heller served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Kennedy Administration. He left his post shortly after Kennedy's
Mann, Thomas C. (Thomas Clifton), 1912-1999 (Item)
  • , and held various diplomatic posts in Europe, Latin America, and Washington, D.C., through 1955. From 1955 to 1957, Mann served the post of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. From October 1957 to August 1960, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State
Greigg, Stanley L. (Item)
  • Bio: (1931-2002) U.S. Navy, 1957-1959; Administrator at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa; Sioux City, Iowa, City Council, 1961 and Mayor, 1964; U.S. Congressman, 1965-1967; Director of the Post Office Department’s Office of Regional
  • LBJ Connection: Mayor of Sioux City, Iowa, 1964; U.S. Representative, Iowa, 1965-1967; Director, Office of Regional Administration, U.S. Post Office, 1967-1969
Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974 (Item)
  • Bio: (1887-1974) Physician; Field Artillery Corps, 1918; Editor, The Nation, 1920-1923, New York Post, 1932-1933; Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, 1934-1939; Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953; U.S
Abell, Tyler, 1932 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Drew Pearson’s stepson. Husband to Bess Abell (Social Secretary to Mrs. Johnson), Associate General Counsel to Post Office Department, 1963; Assistant Postmaster General 1964-1967; Partner in law firm Ginsburg and Feldman, 1967
Alsop, Stewart (Item)
  • Bio: Stewart Alsop (1914-1974) was the brother of Joseph Alsop; an author; and a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, 1945-1954, the Saturday Evening Post, 1954-1968, and Newsweek, 1968-1974.
Schwartz, Marie Smith, 1920 (Item)
  • Bio: Marie Schwartz (b. March 19, 1920, Atlanta, Georgia) was a journalist, author, philanthropist, and a personal friend to the Lyndon Johnson family. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, covering the White House during the Eisenhower
Travis, Edmunds, 1890-1971 (Item)
  • Bio: Edmunds Travis (1890-1971) was a newspaper editor from Texas. He worked as an editor for the following newspapers, beginning in 1908: the Austin Tribune, the Austin Statesman, the Austin Dispatch, and the Houston Post.
Darling, Richard C., 1933-1992 (Item)
  • Bio: Richard C. Darling (b. December 1, 1933, Jackson, Michigan-d. August 22, 1992, Charlottesville, Virginia), served as Deputy Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General and in other United States Post Office roles. He was also a lobbyist
Gavin, John, 1931- (Item)
  • Bio: John Gavin was an actor who appeared in films such as “Spartacus” (1960) and “Psycho” (1960). He was appointed by Ronald Reagan as Ambassador to Mexico and served in this post from June 1981 to June 1986.
Otting, Raymond Gustav, 1909-1965 (Item)
  • Bio: Raymond Gustav Otting (b. December 19, 1909, Oklahoma-d. October 20, 1965, Austin, Texas), U.S. Post Office employee in Austin, Texas.
Shelton, Isabelle, 1916-1993 (Item)
  • that included the Louisville Courier-Journal and the New York Post and for national magazines that included the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and the Economist.
Scott, Bess Whitehead, 1890-1997 (Item)
  • College for one year. She returned to Houston in 1915 and obtained a position as a reporter at the Houston Post newspaper. She married Hubert Clark Scott in 1918 and they had two children. Scott followed her husband in his career, but after his
Laitin, Joseph (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Ombudsman, Washington Post; Assistant Press Secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Goodpaster, Andrew Jackson, 1915-2005 (Item)
  • 1954 to 1961. He also held several Pentagon posts and and served as commandant of the National War College. He was deputy commander of American forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969 and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) commander from 1969 to 1974
Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972 (Item)
  • Bio: Carl Trumbull Hayden (b. Oct. 2, 1877, Hayden's Ferry, Ariz.-d. Jan. 25, 1972, Mesa, Ariz.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Arizona, attended Stanford Junior University and held a number of local political posts before his election
Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 (Item)
  • and duty posts. In 1936, he was made secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee. When Congress established the first peacetime draft in September 1940, Hershey then served as Deputy Director of the Selective Service System from 1940
Dean, Alan Loren, 1918-2010 (Item)
  • Bio: Alan Loren Dean (b. July 27, 1918, Portland, Oregon-d. December 2, 2010, Arlington County, Virginia), served in various official government positions including posts with the Bureau of the Budget, the Federal Aviation Administration
Cooper, Chester Lawrence, 1917-2005 (Item)
  • , and held senior posts at the National Security Council, State Department, Institute for Defense Analyses, and several organizations that focused on environmental and energy issues. He also worked with Japan’s government on environmental questions.
Nicholson, Ralph W., 1916-1995 (Item)
  • Bio: Ralph W. Nicholson (1916-1995) was Assistant Postmaster General during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. President Kennedy put him in charge of installations and logistics at the Post Office Department in 1961, and he later took over
McCone, John A. (John Alex), 1902-1991 (Item)
  • to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and in 1950 and 1951 held the post of Under Secretary of the Air Force. In 1958 McCone accepted the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). McCone regularly attended National Security Council and Cabinet
Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloysius Leon), 1928-1998 (Item)
  • holding posts as a special hearing officer for the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1963, Higginbotham became the youngest commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Higginbotham to serve as a U.S. District